The main topic in this course is Optimization. This refers to the selection of a best element or action from some set of alternatives.The main objectives of this course are:· To understand the importance of Mathematical Optimization and Decision Making in Business.
· To learn to model mathematically decision making situations, and to make (hypothetical) decisions departing from mathematical results.
· To know mathematical concepts, methods and techniques applied to Optimization and basic Decision Making in Business.
· To deal with software used to these kind of mathematical situations.
· To make decisions for easy simulated situations.

Image from ?Dicks? English Library of Standard Works: containing ? novels and stories, etc. (Edited by P. B. St. John.) no. 1-26?, 003226025
Author: SAINT JOHN, Percy Bolingbroke.
Volume: 31
Page: 377
Year: 1884
Place: London
Publisher: J. Dicks
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This photograph, taken in the Hawthorn Leslie yard, Hebburn is captioned is captioned 'Beauty in the Shipyard. View of the 'Angola' ready for launch, March 1948.'
Reference: 2931-43-07
This image is taken from an album produced by the world famous shipbuilding and engineering firm of Hawthorn Leslie. The album gives us a fascinating glimpse of life at the company's shipyard at Hebburn from the late 1930s to the 1960s. There are remarkable images of the men at work in the yard and a poignant series showing the terrible damage caused during the Second World War to HMS Kelly, one of Hawthorn Leslie's best loved ships.
This particular collection of images follows the Birth and ultimate Death of a ship. From the craft and pride in its production and the joy in its performance, to the devastation and price of its destruction.
A blog about this fascinating collection can been viewed here on the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums website.
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Collection: Icelandic and Faroese Photographs of Frederick W.W. Howell, Cornell University Library
Title: Icefall from Langjökull. Hvítárvatn. Panorama 3.
Date: ca. 1900
Place: Hvítárvatn (Iceland)
Medium: collodion print
Repository: Fiske Icelandic Collection, Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Accession: 1923.4.69
URL: cidc.library.cornell.edu/howell/intro.asp
Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/628x
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Image from ?Magna Britannia; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain. [With copious illustrations.] vol. 1-6. L.P?, 004159563
Author: LYSONS, Daniel M.A., F.R.S., and LYSONS (Samuel) F.R.S
Volume: 05
Page: 174
Year: 1806
Place: London
Publisher: T. Cadell and W. Davies
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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln
Political Party: Republican
Date Made: ca. 1864
Measurement: Print: 10 x 12 in.; 25.4 x 30.48 cm
Classification: Prints
Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5z60
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Collection: Human Ecology Historical Photographs
Title: Interior of one of the demonstration cars in 1919.
Collection #23-2-749, item PR-DT-17
Div. Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5w75
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Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.01161
Title: South Transept, Lincoln Cathedral
Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1885
Building Date: 1072-ca. 1199
Location: Europe: United Kingdom; Lincoln
Materials: albumen print
Image: 7 1/4 x 11 1/8 in.; 18.415 x 28.2575 cm
Provenance: Gift of Andrew Dickson White
Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5t9n
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Image from ?Up the Nile, and Home again. A handbook for travellers ? With ? illustrations ? from original sketches by the author?, 001193788
Author: FAIRHOLT, Frederick William.
Page: 438
Year: 1862
Place: London
Publisher:
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Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00395
Title: Troyes. Collections Lancelot
Photographer: Gustave Lancelot (French, 1830-1906)
Photograph date: ca. 1870-ca. 1886
Location: Europe: France; Troyes
Materials: albumen print
Image: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 24.765 x 19.05 cm
Provenance: Gift of Andrew Dickson White
Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5sj8
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Image from ?Kate Randall?s Bargain. A novel?, 001049572
Author: EILOART, Elizabeth Mrs
Volume: 02
Page: 269
Year: 1875
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from ?Among the Selkirk Glaciers: being the account of a ? survey in the Rocky Mountain regions of British Columbia. [With map and illustrations.]?, 001500697
Author: GREEN, William Spotswood.
Page: 8
Year: 1890
Place: London
Publisher: Macmillan & Co.
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Image from ?The Muses of Mayfair. Selections from vers de socie?te? of the nineteenth century. (Translations from the French and German. By E. Grey.)?, 002816093
Author: PENNELL, Harry Cholmondeley.
Page: 119
Year: 1874
Place: London
Publisher:
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Image from ?Kenneth McAlpine: a tale of mountain, moorland, and sea?, 003471548
Author: Stables, Gordon
Page: 204
Year: 1885
Place: London
Publisher: S. W. Partridge & Co.
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Image from ?Dicks? English Library of Standard Works: containing ? novels and stories, etc. (Edited by P. B. St. John.) no. 1-26?, 003226025
Author: SAINT JOHN, Percy Bolingbroke.
Volume: 35
Page: 194
Year: 1884
Place: London
Publisher: J. Dicks
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Image from ?The Great Salt Lake Trail?, 001801888
Author: INMAN, Henry and CODY (William Frederick)
Page: 244
Year: 1898
Place: New York
Publisher: Macmillan Co.
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